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Trouble in Utopia
The Overburdened Polity of Israel
Häftad, 1989
255 kr
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This book provides a thorough and detailed examination of Israeli institutions and how they function. It explains the decline in effectiveness of the government and the spread of cultural malaise in the Israel of the eighties. Horowitz and Lissak trace the integrative and disintegrative trends in …
Saint of Beersheba
Häftad, 1990
430 kr
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Weingrod presents an anthropological study of the development of a new Jewish saint, or zaddikin Israel and of the annual pilgrimage to his enshrined grave by thousands of North African Jews. It is the fascinating story of how Rabbi Chayim Chouri, an aged Tunisian rabbi, became famed as the "Saint …
Tradition, Innovation, Conflict
Jewishness and Judaism in Contemporary Israel
Av Zvi Sobel, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
Häftad, 1991
391 kr
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This book examines religion in Israeli society: what it is and how it functions. Here is a clear picture of how Judaism provides a matrix of continuity for Israeli society notwithstanding a wide diversity of beliefs and practices.
Pioneers and Homemakers
Jewish Women in Pre-State Israel
Häftad, 1992
391 kr
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This book deals with the experience and action of Jewish women in the new Jewish settlement in Palestine (the Yishuv) during the period of Zionist immigration to Palestine, from the last two decades of the nineteenth century until 1948. The wide range of topics concern the experience of East …
Politics and Strategy of Nuclear Weapons in the Middle East
Opacity, Theory, and Reality, 1960-1991 -- An Israeli Perspective
Häftad, 1992
345 kr
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Based on research from an array of American, Arab, British, French, German, and Israeli sources, this book provides a nuclear history of the world's most explosive region. Most significantly, it gives an exposition of Israel's acquisition and political use, or nonuse, of nuclear weapons as a …
Politics and Policy Implementation
Project Renewal in Israel
Häftad, 1993
563 kr
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This book analyzes how the political system influences domestic policy implementation in Israel. It shows how coalition politics, party dominated ministries, an independent and fragmented Jewish Agency, diaspora Jewish communities, powerful mayors, and ethnic considerations influenced the …
Education, Empowerment, and Control
The Case of the Arabs in Israel
Av Majid Al-Haj
Häftad, 1995
563 kr
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Education, Empowerment, and Control is about the education of the Palestinian Arab minority in Israel from the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Using a comparative approach, the study throughout juxtaposes Arab and Hebrew educational systems in terms of administration, …
Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology
Theory, Ideology, and Identity
Av Uri Ram
Häftad, 1995
563 kr
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Offers the first systematic and comprehensive overview of sociological thought in Israel, and pleads for a new agenda that would shift the focus from nation building to democratic and egalitarian citizenship formation.This study explores the changing agenda of Israeli sociology by linking content …
Professionals against Populism
The Peres Government and Democracy
Häftad, 1995
504 kr
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Based on Shimon Peres's private papers, investigates the role of professionals—attorneys, strategic experts, and economists—in Israel's national unity government of 1984-1986 and assesses their impact on government policy.This book, based on Shimon Peres's private papers, tells the unusual story of …
Israel in Comparative Perspective
Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
Häftad, 1996
382 kr
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Challenges the social-science image of Israel as a historical peculiarity by situating Israel's history in comparative context; by building bridges between Israel and other Middle Eastern states; and by using the Israeli case to reconsider existing social science theories and correct common …
Exile from Exile
Israeli Writers from Iraq
Häftad, 1996
427 kr
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The standard histories of Israeli literature limit the canon, virtually ignoring those who came to Israel from Jewish communities in the Middle East. By focusing on the work of Iraqi-born authors, this book offers a fundamental rethinking of the canon and of Israeli literary history.The story of …
Middle East Peace Process
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Av Ilan Peleg
Häftad, 1997
480 kr
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A comprehensive, interdisciplinary look at the history of and complex issues surrounding the peace process in the Middle East.This volume offers a series of focused analyses of various aspects of the peace process. This interdisciplinary book includes insights developed by scholars in such diverse …
Crime and Criminal Justice in Israel
Assessing the Knowledge Base toward the Twenty-First Century
Häftad, 1998
556 kr
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Offers insights into the criminal justice system and the field of criminology in Israel.Assessing the Israeli criminal justice knowledge base with implications for Israel and international scholarship, this book explores crime, legislation, law enforcement, courts, corrections, and the victim. The …
Elections in Israel 1996
Häftad, 1999
590 kr
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Leading American and Israeli social scientists discuss the precedent-setting events of Israel's 1996 elections.Leading social scientists from Israeli and American universities, using different methods and representing diverse intellectual traditions, address the precedent-setting events of Israel's …
Kibbutzniks in the Diaspora
Av Naama Sabar
Häftad, 2000
549 kr
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Explores the search for identity under changing conditions by examining the lives of kibbutz-born young people living in L.A.Under what circumstances would kibbutz-born young people leave a society which symbolizes, more than anything else, the Zionist dream? Naama Sabar explores this question by …
Palestinian-Arab Minority in Israel, 1948-2000
A Political Study
Av As'ad Ghanem
Häftad, 2001
477 kr
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Examines the difficulties of Palestinian-Arab political life in Israel.2001 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title As'ad Ghanem provides a comprehensive description of the political development of the Palestinian-Arab minority in Israel and also discusses their social, cultural, and economic …
Israeli Planners and Designers
Profiles of Community Builders
Av John Forester, Raphael Fischler m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
590 kr
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In their own words, the stories of the men and women who are the planners, architects, community organizers—the hidden builders—of the modern state of Israel.This book documents the goals, lives, experiences, and practice of planners, architects, and community organizers who have contributed to the …
Debating Islam in the Jewish State
The Development of Policy Toward Islamic Institutions in Israel
Häftad, 2001
563 kr
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Covers Israel's policy toward Islamic institutions within its borders, 1948-2000.Using declassified documents from Israeli archives, Alisa Rubin Peled explores the development, implementation, and reform of the state's Islamic policy from 1948 to 2000. She addresses how Muslim communal institutions …
Israel on the Couch
The Psychology of the Peace Process
Häftad, 2003
335 kr
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Applies clinical pyschology to explain the dynamics of the Middle East peace process.By applying a clinical psychologist's insight into the Israeli-Arab conflict, Ofer Grosbard lays the foundation for a new theory and practice that espouses the use of clinical tools to promote relations between …
Sappho in the Holy Land
Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel
Av Chava Frankfort-Nachmias, Erella Shadmi
Häftad, 2004
363 kr
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Essays on the experience of lesbians in contemporary Israeli society.This unique collection examines the experience of lesbians in Israel, providing insight into some of the institutions that have helped shape that experience. The book analyzes and interprets how culturally specific political, …
Watchman Fell Asleep
The Surprise of Yom Kippur and Its Sources
Inbunden, 2005
1324 kr
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Examines how Israel was caught by surprise in the opening stages of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.Based on many formerly undisclosed intelligence and military documents, the secret protocols of discussions on the eve of the war, and interviews with relevant figures, The Watchman Fell Asleep is a …
Israeli Backpackers
From Tourism to Rite of Passage
Av Chaim Noy, Erik Cohen
Häftad, 2006
570 kr
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Examines the backpacking trip usually taken by Israeli youth following military service.In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research-based …
California Dreaming
Ideology, Society, and Technology in the Citrus Industry of Palestine, 1890-1939
Häftad, 2012
608 kr
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Multidisciplinary study of the citrus industry in Palestine before World War II.The citrus industry of Palestine has often been associated with the myths and ideals of the Labor Movement and its Zionist-Socialist ideology. The Jaffa orange, like the young pioneer and the collective kibbutz, was …
Politics of Regime Structure Reform in Democracies
Israel in Comparative and Theoretical Perspective
Av Gideon Rahat
Häftad, 2009
487 kr
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Analyzes initiatives aimed at reforming the electoral and government systems of Israel in comparison to other established democracies.This book examines the success or failure of initiatives aimed at reforming regime structures in democracies, particularly their electoral and government systems. …
Coming Home
Media and Returning Diaspora in Israel and Germany
Av Nelly Elias
Häftad, 2009
455 kr
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Examines the social and cultural integration of Russian-speaking Jews and Germans who immigrated to their respective historic homelands.Coming Home provides an extraordinary glimpse into the social and cultural integration of a unique category of immigrants-the returning Diaspora. During the 1990s …
Foreign Workers in Israel
Global Perspectives
Av Israel Drori
Häftad, 2010
563 kr
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Explores how the entry of migrant workers into Israel raises questions beyond just those of the labor market.In this account of a social experiment gone awry, Israel Drori exposes a little-known and recent phenomenon: the importation of foreign workers from Third World economies to Israel. Focusing …
Israeli State and Society
Boundaries and Frontiers
Inbunden, 1988
1561 kr
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This book provides a unique mosaic of the most recent processes and phenomena which explains Israel factually as well as theoretically. It offers a new conceptual framework for analysing the relationships between state and society, contrasting social boundaries with social frontiers. It also …
Israeli State and Society
Boundaries and Frontiers
Häftad, 1988
502 kr
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This book provides a unique mosaic of the most recent processes and phenomena which explains Israel factually as well as theoretically. It offers a new conceptual framework for analysing the relationships between state and society, contrasting social boundaries with social frontiers. It also …
Nahum Goldmann
Statesman without a State
Inbunden, 2009
1515 kr
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Explores the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most colorful Zionist leaders.The life, career, and legacy of Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), one of the most colorful and important Zionist leaders of the twentieth century, are fully revealed in this illuminating collection of essays. …
Nahum Goldmann
Statesman without a State
Häftad, 2010
487 kr
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Explores the life and career of one of the twentieth century's most colorful Zionist leaders.The life, career, and legacy of Nahum Goldmann (1895–1982), one of the most colorful and important Zionist leaders of the twentieth century, are fully revealed in this illuminating collection of essays. …
